From an AP story by Rebecca Boone, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, and Audrey McAvoy headlined “In deadly Maui wildfires, communication failed. Chaos overtook Lahaina along with the flames”:

In the hours before a wildfire engulfed the town of Lahaina, Maui County officials failed to activate sirens that would have warned the entire population of the approaching flames and instead relied on a series of sometimes confusing social media posts that reached a much smaller audience.